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The following is a list of Bishops in Byzantine Egypt from A.D. 325 to c.750, including the names of the sees and corresponding bishops, based on the research of Professor Dr. K.A. Worp, an eminent papyrologist who has paid close attention to the evidence of the documentary papyri from Byzantine Egypt.[1]

The span of time was suggested by the fact that there is little chance that a Greek papyrus from Egypt written before A.D. 325 would mention a Christian bishop (in general, there is not much information about bishops in Egypt before the Council of Nicaea), and that there are hardly any papyri written in Greek and dating from after c.750 A.D.[note 1]

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Notes

↑In A.D. 646 Alexandria was recaptured by Muslim Arabs after a Byzantine attempt to retake Egypt failed, permanently ending nearly ten centuries of Greco-Roman civilization in Egypt, and after ca. A.D. 706, Greek was replaced by Arabic as the administrative language in Egypt.